I happen to think the constraints help shape startups into something unlike the world has ever seen before if they are not killed by the harsh climate first.

我碰巧想到如果他们一开始没有被艰难的环境所击败，经历这些限制也许可以使这些企业创办成世界上从未见过的形式。

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The incentives were needed given the region's harsh climate - scorching summers and freezing winters, with January temperatures regularly falling below -30C.

鉴于这一地区严酷的环境——夏季异常炙热，冬季极其寒冷，一月份的气温通常都在零下30度以下，这些激励措施显然是很有必要的。

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During the 16th century, Spanish conquistadores tried to penetrate it but the vegetation, harsh climate, lack of water and indigenous tribes defeated them and the Chaco was largely ignored.

早在16世纪，西班牙征服者试图进入这片土地，但那里浓密的植被、恶劣的气候、饮用水的匮乏以及土著部落顽强的抗争，终于让他们落荒而逃，之后查科便被世人基本遗忘了。

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Kenyan parliament member David Koech, serving as chairman of the Pan-African Parliamentarians' Network on Climate Change, which organized the event, said Africans expect global action because they are experiencing the harsh reality of an unfriendly climate.

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Poverty and the harsh climate, particularly in Russia, play a part, as does the tradition of drinking.

FORBES: Europe's Biggest Drinkers

Smaller, stockier, shaggier, more agile and more even-tempered than their cousins elsewhere, Icelandic horses are perfectly adapted for the harsh climate and the challenging volcanic terrain.

BBC: Iceland on horseback

One is up in the high Meseta of central Spain, at 1, 000m or more, with a very harsh climate and the other is in the mountains of Granada - again in a very harsh environment.

BBC: Last-stand Neanderthals queried